Kierkegaard and Possibility 1350299006, 9781350299009

Table of contents :
Foreword, George Pattison (University of Glasgow, UK)
Introduction: Existence and possibility, Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Part I: Possibility and the Philosophical Tradition
1. From Possibility to Actuality and Back Again: Kierkegaard's Ontology of the Possible and the Actually Ideal, Jeff Hanson (Harvard University, USA)
2. 'What Our Age Needs Most': Kierkegaard's Metaphysics of Virkelighed and the Crisis of Identity of Philosophy, Gabriel Ferreira (UNISINOS, Brazil)

Part II: Possibility and Experience
3. Possibility, Meaning, and Truth: Kierkegaardian Themes in Proust, Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA)
4. The Secrecy of Possibility in Kierkegaard's “Pattern”, Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA)
5. Kierkegaard and Deleuze: Anxiety, Possibility and A World Without Others, Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Part III: Possibility and Freedom
6. On Being Educated for the Possibility by The Concept of Anxiety, Jakub Marek (Charles University, Czech Republic)
7. Isaac I cannot Understand: Sacrifice and the Possibility of Radical Intersubjectivity, Tatiana Chavalková Badurová (Charles University, Czech Republic))

Part IV: Possibility and Hope
8. Just a Glance! Kierkegaard's Eschatology of the Possible, Saitya Brata Das (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
9. Climate Despair from a Kierkegaardian Perspective: Asceticism, Possibility and Eschatological Hope, Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (Cambridge University, UK)
10. Hope in the Task of Forgiveness, John Lippitt (Institute for Ethics & Society at Notre Dame, Australia)

Bibliography
Index